Bauchi Gov. threatens to sack erring education secretaries

Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has threatened to sack erring Local Education Secretaries who failed to properly enumerate schools for renovation in their respective areas.

He gave the warning on Monday in Bauchi at a meeting with education stakeholders on how to rejig the sector in the state.

The Governor warned that any education secretary found wanton would be sacked, adding that, ”you have lost your job and you may not even get pension and gratuity”.

Mohammed said the meeting would enable relevant Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs), local council chairmen and Commissioner for Local Governments to deliberate on the way forward.

The Governor said that, “a situation whereby some schools are left unenumerated for renovation or for rebuilding is unacceptable.

“I’m going to investigate to find out what happened before, I’m not just going to sleep and allow things to go like that.

“Nobody will cheat on the state and I will leave him. Even with the previous procurement, I will look at it.”

Mohammed also lamented the sordid state of a school with 20 classrooms where pupils were taking lesson on the floor under blown off roofs.

The Governor frowned at the whopping N17billion expenditure in the basic education level in the past three years without commensurate results.

“Something must be wrong with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and our system. Somebody or some people are there sabotaging us and we have to correct it.”